Hi Everyone! This week I Added a new bad guy and created new levels for Mystic Mayhem Unleashed (see above image for “Terrible Turnip” bad guy). When Max get close to the turnip, it will lunge and try to bite him.

Also a couple of weeks ago I presented Mystic Mayhem Unleashed at the Seattle Indies Show and Tell at the Living Computer Museum. There I met other awesome indie game developers and was able to check out their games. Also people tried out MMU and gave great feedback! I will be adding the recommendations to the game over time.

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The game is getting really close to have public trials. Hopefully by the end of the year (2018) I will have a full fledged demo available for people to play.

This years Penny Arcade Expo was more packed than other years. But but noticeably the arrangement of booths was quite awkward. For example they put a championship live stream in one of the main booth area, making it hard to get around. Also the booth attracted too many lines causing traffic.

There were plenty of major studios showing off their latest games. Sony showing off the new Spider-man game, Xbox with new Forza, also some major gaming system manufacturers showed off their latest motherboards and systems.

Also what was new was they put a Fortnite championship outside the convention center. They had free food and drink while you watch professional gamers shoot it out on the big screen.

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The Convention center is supposed to get an expansion in the next two years. Hopefully this can spread out the booths allowing them to get the traffic without causing other people to miss out on seeing other sights.

It has been a while since I posted about Mystic Mayhem Unleashed. I added more environmental features and been working on the level designs. Probably around 75% complete. Below is a GIF of some of the updates in action. added new obstacles such as various saw blade interactions, fire spouts, treadmills, etc. I also updated lighting to make the 2D characters more pop. And finally added various joystick support for PC, such as XBox and PS Controllers support. I will post more updates on the game as soon as I can.

This years comic con in San Diego was pretty packed in video game goodness. I was lucky enough to get a Thursday and Sunday pass to the conference. Most of the major studios showed off to show off their latest stuff on the convention floor. This year we had some major big budget games that were shown, they included: Resident Evil 2 Remake from Capcom, Black Ops IV, A new Smash Bros and a new Pokemon adventure from Nintendo, and also Kingdom Hearts III and Spider-man from Sony.

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There were even some promotional things from movies based on games, there was an enormous statue of a gorilla for the movie Rampage.

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In the stadium across from the convention center, they had a Rocket League championship going on, visitors got free swag and got to see some real-life version of the cars shown in the game, including the Bat-mobile and the Back to the Future car.

Indie Games were not that prevalent this year at the con. Probably because of the rising cost of getting a booth. There were some panels showcasing some indie games and marketing strategies. Maybe we will see more indie games out next year.

After some time working on Beyond the Infinite Abyss, I decided to work on Mystic Mayhem Unleashed. I am now converting the original game to Unity, this will give me more flexibility to deploy to other platforms with less maintenance. The sequel with continue off from the first game and will make the stakes bigger. Also, I will be working on getting it ready for PC (steam), PS4, and Xbox One. I will also be including the original game (redesigned in new engine) to the new version.

In the coming days I will be showing off some of the levels and new graphics updates. Please be sure to follow on Facebook where I will be doing a live demo/development also.

Another year of Pax Prime at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle Washington. The line to get in was quite odd, but a little improvement. Instead of waiting to get in from the back of the convention, they made people wait in the overpass next door, which confused alot of people. but if you had waited an hour after it opened, you did not have to worry about any line at all to get in.

This year, there were more VR showcases, such a Skyrim VR in the Bethesda booth, a bunch of Playstation VR games (sparc?), and Dell was showing their new VR set.

Another theme I noticed was that there were plenty of “Ride the ___ and take a picture” themes at most of the booths. Mostly dinosaurs or dragons.

Speaking of dragons, the Dungeons and Dragons crew aka Wizards of the Coast was a no show this year which disappointed some people.

The swag this year was quite an improvement to over years, more T-Shirts, hats, and mouse-pads were given out to the attendees who checked out the latest games. Also, if you traveled a block away form the event, you can find a Monster Energy truck giving away their new soda, and Nissin was giving away cases of their Cup o’ Noodles. In the area, I was lucky enough to run into the creators of the show and Penny Arcade comic (Tycho and Gabe). They were cool enough to sign my badge.

Signed by the Creators of Penny Arcade (Tycho and Gabe aks Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik)

There were also plenty of Indie games you can buy, this year I got the latest Shovel Knight, and Broken age from the Limited Indie Run booth. Also, I got the Hunted Halloween 86 for the NES (yes, the original), the sequel to the one they made last year, which was quite fun. Other indie games had an impact this year, Nintendo has their Nindies area, after waiting in line for a couple hours, you get to play all the new indie games coming to the Switch in the next year and get to talk to the Develpers who made this. I was able to play to the next Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Floor Kids – a dance off game, Sausage Sports Club – A four player mini games match, Super Meat Boy Forever – Super Meat Buy Sequel, they announced No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again, but did not show it off at the area.

Overall, this was a fun show, but drains the life out of you if you wait in the lines. Next year, the convention center should have expended a large mount of square footage, I wonder what the layout will be…

Its been a while since I last posted. I wanted to concentrate more on the mechanics of the game. I added a new fight ability, a spin attack. Alpha-1 spreads its arms allowing Anna to spin and knockout enemies.